Nature and Narrative
An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 May 2003
- ISBN 9780198526117
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 234x156x18 mm
- Weight 497 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 colour plates, 1 halftone an 3 figures 0
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Short description:
Nature and Narrative is the launch volume in a new series of books entitled International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry. The series will aim to build links between the sciences and humanities in psychiatry.
Our ability to decipher mental disorders depends to a unique extent on both the sciences and the humanities. Science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem, enabling us to formulate an 'explanation', and the humanities provide insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. Psychiatry, if it is to develop as a balanced discipline, must draw on input from both of these spheres.
Nature (for causes) and Narrative (for meanings) will help define the series as a whole by touching on a range of issues relevant to this 'border country'. With contributions from an international star-studded cast, representing the field of psychiatry, psychology and philosophy, this volume will set the scene for this new interdisciplinary field.
This will be of interest to all those with practical experience of mental health issues, whether as providers or as users/consumers of services, as well as to philosophers, social scientists, and bioethicists.
Long description:
Nature and Narrative is the launch volume in a new series of books entitled International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry. The series will aim to build links between the sciences and humanities in psychiatry.
Our ability to decipher mental disorders depends to a unique extent on both the sciences and the humanities. Science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem, enabling us to formulate an 'explanation', and the humanities provide insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. Psychiatry, if it is to develop as a balanced discipline, must draw on input from both of these spheres.
Nature (for causes) and Narrative (for meanings) will help define the series as a whole by touching on a range of issues relevant to this 'border country'. With contributions from an international star-studded cast, representing the field of psychiatry, psychology and philosophy, this volume will set the scene for this new interdisciplinary field.
This will be of interest to all those with practical experience of mental health issues, whether as providers or as users/consumers of services, as well as to philosophers, social scientists, and bioethicists.
This is a challenging and fascinating work. It offers the start of a conversation about the peril of taking issues of meaning for granted in psychiatry and does so in a manner that manifests the potential wealth in an ever broadening dialogue of biological and cultural science and the humanities.
Table of Contents:
Past improbable, future possible: the renaissance in philosophy and psychiatry
Section 1 - Recycling History?
Towards a psyche for psychiatry
Section 2 - A New Kind of Philosophy
Wittgenstein's method and psychoanalysis
How can a mind be sick?
Section 3 - A New Kind of Ethics
Psychiatry and the law
Understanding dementia: a hermeneutic perspective
Section 4 - A New Kind of Psychology
Meaning and causal explanations in the behavioural sciences
Subjectivity and the possibility of psychiatry
Form and content: the role of discourse in mental disorder
Meaning and causes of delusions
Section 5 - A New Kind of Phenomenology
The phenomenology of body dysmorphic disorder: a Sartrean analysis
Putting the epoche into practice: schizophrenic experience as illustrating the phenomenological exploration of consciousness
How can the phenomenological-anthropological approach contribute to diagnosis and classification in psychiatry?
Incomprehensibility
Section 6 - A New Kind of Science
Anxiety - animal reactions and the embodiment of meaning
Linguistic markers of recovery: semantic, syntactic and pragmatic changes in the use of first person pronouns in the course of psychotherapy
Section 7 - Future Possible?
Magic, science and equality of human wits
